WittKieffer, an executive search firm, surveyed healthcare chief information and digital officers to explore the scope, compensation and more details pertaining to the role.
Five findings on IT staffing from the report:
- CIOs identified enhancing team performance (59%) and creating development opportunities (53%) as top priorities.
- Organizations face challenges in attracting new talent (44%) and enhancing team culture (42%), especially amid high demand for IT professionals with healthcare expertise.
- Thirty-eight percent of CIOs plan to grow their teams by hiring additional full-time employees. A strong majority (87%) report that most (75% or more) of their IT services are still managed in-house, though 24% of CIOs anticipate reorganization, reflecting structural changes in healthcare IT departments.
- Eighty-seven percent of organizations outsource less than a quarter of their IT functions to managed service providers or vendors.
- Ninety-three percent of CIOs said their teams are either partially or entirely remote.
